On 8/11/2020 at 6:29 AM, lynnidolz said:

Anyone know why Shoma is not in Switzerland for training?As Rika can go there thats mean no travel restriction from Japan to Switzerland right

 

Partly speculation and partly experience with other country's visa requirements:  Rika would have entered Switzerland on a visitor's visa; Shoma would be wanting to apply for a work or study visa.  If Shoma had started the visa application process before travel restrictions, he won't be able to enter as a visitor without invalidating the work / study visa application.  The only thing you can do in that situation is wait for the original application to be processed.

14 часов назад, river сказал:

I worry about him being coached remotely. Remember what happened last season when he didn’t have a coach? Hopefully he trains just as hard with Stephane watching over Zoom as he would if he were at Champery.

I think last season it was more mental than technical thing. So in this situation Zoom must be ok.

Shoma’s dog, Emma 💕💕

 

22 hours ago, FlyingCamel said:

I think he is! He appeared in one of Stephane’s Zoom lessons in that series hehe

 

21 hours ago, river said:

Hopefully he trains just as hard with Stephane watching over Zoom as he would if he were at Champery.

 

 

Shoma is not forgotten, that's for sure ! :-)

2020 All Osaka II Figure Skating Championships, 29 August

among competitors are Mitsuki, Taichi, Moa, Riko, Ayaka, Yuto, Sena

https://jsfresults.com/local/2020-2021/fs/27/index.htm

 

Interesting to hear Shoma talk about how his boots and blade alignment affects his performance on the ice!! And wow, he changes skates every month 😱 That’s so expensive considering skates cost like hundreds of euros...

Looks like Rinkai Sports Center had a recital today, and Sota Yamamoto performed his Dark Eyes SP at the end of it.

From about 24:26 of this video:

Looks like he is wearing the costume for Poeta

40 minutes ago, sweetwater said:

Looks like Rinkai Sports Center had a recital today, and Sota Yamamoto performed his Dark Eyes SP at the end of it.

From about 24:26 of this video:

Looks like he is wearing the costume for Poeta

 

I liked that a lot! He's into it and sharp with the choreo for this point in the year, so it will be great as it gets better!

 

I always enjoy watching Sota because the way he uses his arms and upper body in his skating in such an expressive but natural way is like.....if you didn't already know, you could tell that he's definitely one of Yuzu's boys  

 

Interview with Koshiro Shimada

 

http://wasedasports.com/feature/20200817_131396/

 

 

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And of course, I have great respect for Yuzuru Hanyu, both in terms of technology and the spirit of the athlete. I'm playing games together, but I think that it's good if something like that that can't be expressed in those words will come to me in the future because the aura is completely different.

 

Google translator

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ja&tl=de&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwasedasports.com%2Ffeature%2F20200817_131396%2F

Rika

 

Riku and Ryuichi 1

 

Riku and Ruichi 2

 

Shingo

 

3 hours ago, sweetwater said:

Rika

Aaaaand again URed. Even worse than last attempt. On the other hand, I'm glad that she is comfortable with lutz enough to attempt this combo.

1 hour ago, Paskud said:

Aaaaand again URed. Even worse than last attempt. On the other hand, I'm glad that she is comfortable with lutz enough to attempt this combo.

How do you spot UR? I'm genuinely curious because I can only spot prerotation on a Flip or Lutz 

 

Didn't Shingo once compete with only single jumps? Now he is practicing 3A? Another chaotic energy boy... 

 

1 hour ago, Veveco said:

Didn't Shingo once compete with only single jumps? Now he is practicing 3A? Another chaotic energy boy... 

Because he was injured.